Please do not lift the restriction.  There are other media for other
stuff.  Just my thought on that matter.  mcneely

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:52 AM Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:

> *"I too miss the chatter."*
>
> hi Jim,
>
> if you don't mind a suggestion...I know this board is for vanagon
> discussion only, excepting Friday which we can discuss anything we like...
> I'd suggest lifting the restriction the *"vanagon discussion only"* and
> allowing members to discus anything they like, any day. As an example, if I
> come across something interesting or funny but not related to VW/vanagon, I
> have to wait till Friday to post.. then there's big chance that I forgot it
> completely and not posting anything at all...
>
> so my idea by lifting the restriction will allow more traffic on the board
> and more chats...
>
> thanks
>
> dan
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 8:37 PM Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
>
> > There are currently 490 subscribers on the gerry.vanagon.com list.
> >
> > I suspect that your hypothesis is correct. I admin a few other lists and
> > where there used to be ten to a hundred posts daily, there’s now one or
> two
> > a week. All gone to FB no doubt as it’s more ‘immediate.’ WetWesties for
> > example, 2008 saw an avg of 299.8 messages/month. 2018, the avg is
> 32.5/mo.
> >
> > I too miss the chatter. I also miss that chatter being archived.
> >
> > For historical purposes, the following is the first post to the Vanagon
> > list.  (There was a vanagon-L list that preceded it, but those archives
> are
> > lost to the sands of time as I’m sure this list’s archives will be
> > eventually.)
> >
> > We’ve had a good run.
> >
> > Jim
> >
>